Products

Market Intelligence Platform

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S&P Capital IQ Platform

Log in for access to broad financial data and research tools needed to elevate your understanding of markets and make informed decisions, including access to tools such as Credit Analytics, LCD, Research Online, and more.

Knowledge Center

To master new skills and grow your business, you need essential knowledge. Since 1998—beginning with SNL Financial and now with S&P Global Market Intelligence—more than 25,000 strategic finance professionals have relied on us. We offer unsurpassed, sector-specific training seminars and executive conferences to move you and your business forward.

Programs By Sector

We develop all of our seminars and executive conferences with sector-specific insights to give you the edge. Our programs are ideal for strategic finance professionals who work in or cover our sectors. Attorneys, consultants, and regulators find them valuable, too. We are a registered and approved training provider with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. Our live programming, both in-person and online, is eligible for continuing education and professional credits.

Banking

Energy

Insurance

Media & Communications

Metals & Mining

Real Estate

Banking

We design educational seminars and conferences for bankers, in the language of bankers. Our content keeps pace with the shifting regulatory landscape, economic trends, and industry developments to move you ahead. Whether you and your team seek practical training to improve your performance, or an opportunity to learn from and network with your peers, we've got you covered.

Energy

Confusion has no place in your business decisions. With our sector-specific analytical training and executive conferences, we can help you navigate the complexities of the energy sector and equip you with the knowledge to make better business decisions.

Insurance

The insurance industry is highly complex, with significant regulatory oversight, nuanced financial structures, and perpetual change. No doubt you've found generic conferences and training unsatisfactory. Each year, we provide the essential knowledge thousands of professionals need to work in or cover the insurance sector.

Media & Communications

Connect to the intelligence you need to analyze the Media industry. In a rapidly evolving landscape, with rising competitive and regulatory challenges, you need to fine tune your strategy. You need the proper insight. From cable operators and network broadcasters to regulatory agencies and investors, all trust us to provide them with sector-focused training and thought leadership conferences.

Metals & Mining

Our Mining Insight seminars provide a comprehensive and straightforward explanation of the global mining industry. We'll unravel the complexities of the sector to equip you with the knowledge required to make better business decisions.

Real Estate

The focus on Real Estate, with its addition to S&P's GICS index as a major company type, is greater than ever. Our seminars focus primarily on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). You'll gain insights on how to improve analysis and forecasting techniques, credit risk assessments, as well as knowledge of the multiple approaches to valuation.

The Training Advantage

Discover what more than 20,000 professionals who have attended Knowledge Center programs since 1998 know. Our financial skills training seminars combine lectures, group work and case studies, and are designed to be of immediate practical value. Programs range from fundamental courses to post-graduate caliber programs focusing on analytical concepts such as valuation, credit analysis, and risk management. Instructors are drawn from the ranks of leading practitioners and acknowledged subject-matter experts. With live seminars — both in-person and online — as well as in-house options, we have the flexibility to meet your schedule and budget.

Types of Programs

We offer outstanding career development for every stage of your career, from foundational skills training to executive conferences. With live seminars, both in-person and online, you'll find the flexibility you need to make training a part of your busy schedule.

Conferences

Seminars

In-House

Corporate Partners

Conferences

With industry-leading keynote speakers, executive panelists, and ample time for networking, our content-rich conferences give you the essential insights you need to inform your strategy.

Seminars

Our live, in-person seminars offer the richest and deepest content customized to particular industries. Our goal is to help you and your team develop analysis and insights faster and more accurately than ever before. Course topics include analyst training, valuation, credit risk analysis, statutory accounting and reporting, enterprise risk management, and more.

In-House

Got a group that needs the same training? We can bring our time-tested seminars to you at the locations and dates of your choosing. We can even supplement the core syllabus with your company-specific content for a more customized learning experience.

Corporate Partners

We offer a variety of ways for companies to engage with our audience to help deliver additional value-add opportunities.

Featured Programs

Utility Regulation Conference: Rates & Reliability

Features the industry’s top utility executives, advisors, regulators and investors sharing insights about the overall landscape and financial alternatives in the current regulatory environment

31st Annual Power and Gas M&A Symposium

The Power and Gas M&A Symposium will provide you critical insights into how utility mergers and acquisitions can be used to support your business’ growth strategy.

REIT School: Analyst Training In Real Estate Investment Trusts

The only comprehensive introduction to the REIT sector for investors, analysts, REIT financial professionals, and those who work with them.

8th Annual Insurance M&A Symposium: Evolution or Revolution?

The industry's most influential executives and top deal-makers examine expectations and prospects for transactions in the coming year.

Big Decisions in Banking

Features leading commercial bankers, advisers, regulators and investors sharing their perspectives on the overall environment and every facet of the M&A process

11th Annual Insurance Brokerage Summit: Sink or Sail

Nov. 8-9, join top industry executives, advisors and analysts for an informed discussion of strategic planning, growth, and M&A trends…

Current Programs

For a complete list of scheduled conferences and seminars, please visit our Professional Development calendar page.